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The Day (Waco, Texas) Vol. 4 No. , Wednesday, December 1, 1886

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Can be Usued by a Child.
For Sale By,
HORSFULL & CAMERON,
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VOL. 4 NO. 7. WACO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER L 1886. i'JL\ r. oYENTS.
IBrg fiSooSs.
SANGER BROTHERS’
Ladies’ and Children’s Suit Department
We call your attention to some new lots of ladies’ and children’s ready made suits we
have just received. Every ladies’ garment that we have for sale is made up under
our own supervision in New York, they are all well made and good fitting as
none but fashionable dress makers are employed to make up these goods.
Ladies’ Ready Made Suits at $9.00.
Suit of ladies’ cloth skirt with full drapery and
pleated back basque, made neat and
plain at $9.00
Ladies’ Ready Made Suits at $11.00
Suits of Tricot in all colors with long pointed
drapery in front and full drapery in back,
basque plain and very neat $11.00.
Ladies’ Ready Made Suits at $12.50.
Black and colored cashmere suits, skirt made plain with six rows of stitching,
short front drapery and full back drapery, jacket to correspond
with skirt at $12.50.
Ladies’ Ready Made Suits at $13.00.
.S' (JITS OF ALL WOOL HAIR LINED STRIPED CIIEVIOTS
SKIRT LAID IN PLEATS AND FUTL BACKDRAPER1
AND BASQUE MADE WITH VEST FRONT
A VERJ PRETT7 SUIT AT #73.30
Tailor made suits of all wool sacking black and colors very stylish round front drapery
nd a bouffant back drapery jacket to match skirt at $16. The above are only a few of the
many elegant dresses we are showing in all kinds of woolen material fron $6 to $40 a suit,
our Parisian styles in blackand colored satin Duchesse and silk suits are very stylishly
made. We are also showing some very pretty styles in ladies morning wrappers.
:o:—:o:
Children’s and Misses’ Suits
Cashmere suits, sizes 4 to 12, $2.25 to $3.25. Misses suits full dress sizes 12 to 16
to 84.50. Children’s.flannel sailor suits sizes 4 to 12 years 5*2.25 to $525 three
styles, and a very fine line of children’s and misses suits in all kinds of fine woolen
material to all of which we invite inspection.
SangeR Brothers
tg.
W. M. RAGLAND.
(Established in 1871.)
OLDEST !& LAEOEST
JEWELRY HOUSE
In the City.
No. 360, Austin Avenue, Waco, Tex&a.
tbmcrtpti.’Bcoguisis.
CASTLES & MORRISON
THE OLD CORNER DRUG'S
Leading Prescription Brag Etcie m the City
Moxie, Orange Wine and Limeade. The
Most Popular Drinks in Waco.
A SECRET CIRCULAR.
! o:
THE KNIGHTS OF (LABOR LEVY A GENERAL
ASSESSMENT.
• o:
Contributions to the “Defense Fund” Called for—
A Petition in Favor of Cluveriu. The Damage
to Charleston by Earthquake Shocks.
Secret Circular to the Knights.
Associated Press.
Philadelphia, December i.— The
Pressthis morning publishes the following
important secret circular, issued by
the general officers of the Knights of
Labor with photolithographic rcproductions
of the signatures and seal of the
order:
OFFICIAL CIRCULAR.
Office of General 1
AssemblyY,, IK\.. UoPf L. i
Philadephia, Nov. 19.)
To all Subordinate Assemblies of the Order, Greeting:
Previous to the session of the general
assembly at Richmond, an appeal was
made for assistance for victimized
and locked out members in various
parts of the country'. The response to
that appeal was not such as it should
have been, and only about $14,000 was
received thereon. This, it is manifest to
every member, was entirely insufficient
to render the assistance needed and desired.
Many thousand members were
thrown upon our hands by lockouts of the
employers, who acted in concert with the
avowed purpose of driving their employes
out of the order, by crippling if
not destroying its power and useiulness.
The order of the Knights of Labor has
reached a most critical period in its history.
It stands as a power for good or
for evil, but your general officers, while
they make no special claim to superiority
in purity of motive, have sworn that
the order shall be made a
power for right and right only.
Two alternatives present themselves :
unconditional surrender or manly defence—
which shall it be ? The lockedout
members in their enforced idleness
turn from suffering wives and starving
children in a pathetic appeal to your
general executive board to aid them
in maintaining their manhood and
their fidelity to the order.
Deeply moved for these suffering members
and those dependent upon them,
your general executive board has unanimously
resolved ta.levy an assessment of
25 cents per member upon all the local
assemblies of the order, the same to be
paid under the following regulations:
All locaP assemblies that respond will
be credited in this assessment with the
amount donated; all local assemblies
who can are requested to
remit the full amount of assessment not
later than December 20. The assessment
in this case will be 25 cents for each
member, as shown by reports for the
quarter ending October 1, 1886. Local
assemblies preferring to pay the amount
in installments may pay ten cents for
each member not later than
Dec. 20, and ten cents not later than Jan.
20, and five cents not later than Feb. 20.
This assessment will be known as the
“special defence” assessment and must
be paid to General Secretary Chas. H.
Litchman, lock box, 885, Philadelphia,
not later than the dates named.
T. V. Powderly.
The Damage at Charleston.
Associated Press.
Washington, December 1.—Chas. T.
Mitchell, a former member of the South
Carolina legislature, and receiver of the
Charleston and Savannah road, and now
a chief of division in the sixth auditor’s
office, who has just returned from a trip
to Charleston told a reporter yesterday
that the real estate men there estimate
that it will take $7,000,000 to repair the
damage done by the earthquake. He
added that if the houses were not made
of English brick, as solid as a rock, not a
wall would be now standing. The $700,
000 contributed have already been
largely distributed. “It all goes,” said
Mr. Mitchell, “to the poor and helpless.
Men worth hundreds of thousands have
applied for a share of the benefit, but
have not yet received any, and Mayor
Courtnay told me he had a good mind
to publish their names and shame them.”
FleacT ’g for Cluveriua
Associated Press.
Richmond, Va., December 1.—The
counsel for Cluverius, condemned to be
hung December 10, for the murder of his
cousin, Fannie Lilian "Madison, waited
on Governor Lee last night and presented
a numerously signed petition asking a
commutation ot the death sentence. The
governor took the petition and promised
to give it his attention. Judge Drury A.
Hinton, the only one of the five judges
of the court of appeals that dissented
from the judgment of the lower court,
has not filed his dissenting opinion.
MRS. CLEVELAND'S FRIENDSThe
Cabinet Ladies With Whom She Is on Most
Intima 8 Term3.
New York World.
B/ S7 SODA \ABD MIL ERAL ^A 7MRS. J JM KILL ART1
As the winter season is about to open
there is considerable talk about Mrs.
Cleveland’s preferences among the cabinet
ladies. It is conceded that Mrs.
Manning will be the prime favorite at
the White House. Mrs. Cleveland had
never met the wife of the secretary of
the treasury until her wedding day.
While the other ladies of the cabinet uttered
formal wishes to the young bride
after the ceremony in the blue room,
Mrs. Manning kissed her , warmly, and
with tears in her eyes wished the new
mistress of the White House as much
1mnmnr>c;c:
said that Mrs. Cleveland had a warm
place in her heart for,Mrs. Manning, and
their friendship has grown stronger every
day since. Mrs. Manning is
at the White House more
frequently than any other society
lady in Washington. Mrs. Cleveland
consults her on points of capital etiquette,
and will no doubt be, in a measure, her
protege until she becomes thoroughly
familiar with the requirements of her
new station. It is hinted that the other
cabinet ladies are just a littlp bit jealous
of Mrs. Manning’s success at the White
House.
Mrs. Whitney, while not so intimate
with the mistress of the White House,
is on excellent terms with her, as she is
with everybody else. She is a great admirer
of Mrs. Cleveland’s beauty, and
often speaks of her as the handsomest
woman in Washington. This will appear
.peculiarly disinterested when it is
remembered that Mrs. Whitney herself
is a pretty woman.
Mrs. Vilas seldom calls at the White
House, and there does not seem to be
much love lost between her and Mrs.
Cleveland. The two ladies are so opposite
in character that they never could
become friends. While Mrs. Cleveland
is bright, happy and impulsive, Mrs.
Vilas is a cold, polished woman of the
world—one who seems to have studied
out life philosophically and concluded
that there is an immense quan ity of
sham in it. Mrs. Vilas’ 15yearo'd
daughter Mollie is a prime favorate at
the White House. However, she is a
lovely, goldenhaired little creature —
one of those caressing, kittenish children
whom it is impossible to resist. Miss
Mollie is sometimes seen with Mrs.
Cleveland in their drives, and it is hard
to decide which is the prettier.
Pretty Miss lennie Lamar, only
daughter of the secretary of the interior,
has also found favor with the warmhearted
mistress of the White House.
Miss Lamar is one of those dark, passionate
looking girls such as are seen in
Spanish pictures. She has been here
only a short time, is motherless and almost
unacquainted, and Mrs. Cleveland
has been very kind to her. One remarkable
thing is there are no bickerings
among the wives and daughters of the
cabinet officers, and no quarrels about
precedence. It was not so when Miss
Cleveland presided at the White House.
Then the ladies felt that they had a leader
whose title was questionable, and each
felt that she herself had a better claim to
the name of “first lady in the land.”
Now, however, they have an acknowledge
i leader young, beautiful, and they
are united in their determination to
make this administration the most suecessful,
socially, that Washington has
seen in many years.
A Cranky Law Maker.
Atlanta, November 24.—McGee, the
member of the legislature from Murray,
is in a fair way to achieve fame. He is
opposed to monopolies and big cities.
He was elected as the special representative
of the farmers, with a little admixture
of the Knights of Labor. After his
election he called a meeting of his constituents.
The meeting came to the conelusion
that there were too many rich
folks, and that their increase should be
cut off.
The result is that a bill has been introduced
in the legislature to limit the
profits on “store goods.” It is provided
that merchants shall not charge a profit
of over fifteen percent, on the necessaries
of life, such as corn, flour, bacon and coffee.
Penalties are provided for speculating
outside of these figures.
The friends of the bill aver that it will
bring about a revival of prosperity among
the poor; that the state has as much
right to regulate mercantile profits as it
has railroad rates, and the laws should
be made for the benefit of the poor entirely.
The serious part of the matter is
that, notwithstanding the absurdity of
the bill, it stands a chance of passing the
house.
A Living Landmark of History.
Col. G. T. Peers is the only white man
now living at Appomattox Court House
who was there at the time of the sur
render of Gen. Lee. He is the friend,
counselor and leader of the little community,
and his kindly blue eyes and
flowing white beard gave him a patriarchal
appearance. His office in the
basement of the court house is crowded
with musty old papers, many bearing
date early in the last century and concerning
:he estates and fortunes of many
proud F. F. V’s. Col. Peers is probably
better acquainted with the Deal events
transpiring at the time ot Lee’s surrendei
than any man in the south.
ADJUDGED INSANE.
Dr. Leach Will go to the Asylum Instead of the
Penitentiary.
A Bride’s First Sorrow.
St. Paul Globe.
“What is the matter with my little
wife?” Her dainty head falls on his
shoulder, and between the sobs, that
shake her slight frame, she says: “Wi
Will, I fefeel so baad. I wanted to
make some bibiscuit this noon, aaand
got the wawa water and salt and yeye
yeast, but there’s something mimimissing,
and I can’t think whawhawhat
it is.” Mr. Youngman smiled quietly
and, clasping his young wife to his watchs
pocket, he placed his lips to her ear and
whispered: “Flour.”
Miss Cleveland's New Poem.
Utica Heraid.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveiaudh as written
a narrative poem of 400 lines, which
will soon be published. It is called
“The Dilemma of the Nineteenth Century,”
and treats of the woman question
from the satirical point of view. The
metre is something similar to that of
“Don Juan,” and the poem is said by
In July, 1885, Dr. R. W. Leach, a practicing
physician in DeLeon, Comanche
county, shot and killed Constable Jo. A.
Martin. Dr. Leach was drinking at the
time, and Martin was taking him home.
Leach was indicted by the grand jury of
Comanche country on a charge of murder.
He was tried at the spring term,
1886, of the district court of Comanche
county, and the jury assessed the punishment
at fourteen years in the penitentiary.
An appeal was taken, and pending
this appeal thedefendent was brought to
Waco and confined in jail. About ten
days ago the case was affirmed. Mrs.
McL. Leach, wife of defendant, went to
Austin, and through the influence of
friends and a petition numerously signed,
Governor Ireland issued a stay in the
proceedings. Meanwhile Dr. Leach was
kept in the jail, and his faithful wife went
to work to prove that he was insane. An
affidavit charging Dr. Leach with insanity
was filed before County Judge Evans
by Sheriff W. T. Harris, and the case was
tried this morning. Hon. George Clark
represented the defendant, and County
Attorney J. W. Taylor appeared for the
state. Witnesses were examined and
deposed as follows:
Mrs Me. L. Leach, wife of defendant,
said she married Dr. Leach, September
23, 1877, in Washington City. The first
appearance of in'anity was a few years
after they were married. Dr. Leach’s
father, while they were living in West
Virginia, advised her to have him confined
in the asylum. She did not want
him confined and they removed to Texas,
and lived in Erath county; it was here
where he began his first ravings, and became
violent at times. He has a first
and a second cousin who are insane.
The doctor is 34 or 35 years old, he has
suffered from one severe attack of insanity
since his conviction.
Dr. H. W. Brown had seen Dr. Leach
in the jail, and first met him in February
of this year; he is very weak in health:
thought his mind was entirely unbalanced;
had seen him two or three times,
and he was not the same either time;
thought he should have been under confinement
and treatment for the last several
years; thought he is not a responsible
being.
Dr. R. W. Park thought the defendant
was undoubtedly of unsound mind, and
believed that it was necessary tfiat defendant
be placed under restraint.
Dr. D. R. Wallace, superintendent of
the lunatic asylum at Terrell, said he
knew defendant; said he was of unsound
mind, and should be placed under
restraint. “From the history of the case
I would not have discharged him from
treatment at any time within the past
seven years; the cause of his insanity is
rather an evolution in his constitution,
arising from an hereditary taint.”
The jury then retired and in a few
minutes returned a verdict to the effect
defendant was of unsound mind, and
recommended that he be placed under
restraint. Governor Ireland will now be
asked to stay the proceedings of the
courts, and Dr. Leach will be sent to the
asylum at Terrell. If Dr. Leach is restored
to his right mind, and is not
pardoned by a governor at any time between
now and the time the fourteen
years shall have expired, he will have to
serve the balance of the time in the penitentiary.
But it is not probable that he
will have to serve one day in state prison,
as there will be strong influences
brought to bear 0.1 either Governor Ireland,
Governor Ross or some other governor
to have him pardoned. The man
is a wreck'—the very picture of a crazy
man, and he is suffering from consumption,
which will sooner or later carry him
off. Since his confinement it the Waco
jail. Dr. Leach has given the officers littie
or no trouble. He is adicted to the
use of morphine, and has used it to
such an extent that when from under
the influence of the drug he is almost
wild. Leach is the father of three chil
dren. one boy and two li’tle girls. Duringtne
hearing of the
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stone which abound in central and
western Texas: this industry alone, with
proper management, would give employment
to several thousand convicts. I
have recently visited the granite quarries
of Burnet county now being worked by
the capitol syndicate with convict labor,
mainly, the stone being quarried only for
the new capitol building at Austin, and
to say it is being successfully done is
but to repeat what every one says who
has seen it. Now if convict labor can
be utilized by private parties then why
not by the stale? I liese quarries are on
the Colorado river, at the celebrated
mhrble falls, which is pronounced by enineers
to be equal to the best water
ower in the United States, with sufficient
power to drive all the machinery
that could possibly be utilized. Now in
selecting a location for the new penitentiary,
why not secure this site? One
thousand acres of land could be bought,
embracing the falls, and the granite quart
ies. On this one thousand acres would
be three hundred and fifty acres of solid
granite rock, being an immense mountain
clear of soil: also an inexhaustible
supply of the finest variegated marble,
and hundreds of acres of hard limestone.
The state could erect its buildings with
its own labor. There are now four hundied
convicts who have become skilled
granite cutters while working for the
capitol syndicate. These could be utilized
and others could be trained and the work
of quarrying, dressing and shipping this
granite, marble and limestone to all
parts of the state could be at once commenced.
This would at once give employment
to the convict lab ir, and the
cost of production being so small would
enable them to furnish the material so
cheap that it would becofne of general
use for all fine or ornamental work
throughout the state. An abundance of
the best iron ore is found in the immediate
vicinity of the falls. This industry
could also be successfully developed and
worked by convict labor. I firmly believe
that in twelve months from this
date, if an effort was made, every convict
now working on farms or railroads
could be worked in those quarries and
foandries, and at a profit to the state,and
if true one of the hardest problems to
come before the next legislature will have
been solved. Respectfully,
James I. Moore.
Waco, November 30, 1886.
LAST NIGHT AND TO NIGHT.
The Enjoyable Entertainment Given by the
Ladies oi St. Paul's Guild.
morning the little son sat on his father’s
knee, and Leach seemed as if he did not
know what was going on; all of his time
was taken up in talking to and caressing
his boy.
Right royally did the ladies of St. Paul’s
guild welcome and entertain their friends
and visitors last night. They used the
spacious building belonging to Dr. Cock
(opposite The Day office) which Dr. C.
tendered without charge, and there they
spread a supper that was superb. Hundreds
of visitors came and went during
the evening and all were served with the
hospitality and grace that ever characterizes
the ladies ot the guild. It was a
poem in epicurean art, that supper, and
not to be forgotten. (The Day, by the
way, does not forget the lunch sent to
this office, for which thanks are here tendered).
But the supper was not the only
source of pleasure and interest. Several
attractive devices, or rather means of
raising revenue, were put on foot, which
may be enumerated biiefly. First, there
is balloting and a prize for the most popular
married lady. The balloting will
open tonight and the prize is a handsome
quilt. Then the most beautiful young
lady, receiving the greatest number of
votes, will receive a beautiful handpainted
placque. As there are several
candidates lor this distinction it is
hardly proper to venture an opinion who
will be the victor, although it is hinted
that Miss Annie Cameron’s friends are
determined she shall have the placque.
The handsomest and the homeliest married
men will each get prizes. They will
be balloted for, as in the case of the
ladies. Perhaps the most interesting
contest, however, is for the prettiest baby
—the victor to receive a handsome
___ Afghan. The balloting commenced last
testimony this' "’Sht, with the following little ones en
THE CONVICT PROBLEM.
Proposed Utilization oi Labor in the Granite
Fields Near Barnet
To the Editor of The Day.
. A great deal is being said and written
now about the branch penitentiary, which
seems must be built to accommodate the
increasing number of convicts, and to
provide a place of safe confinement for
them and at the same time not make
them a burden upon the tax payers of the
state. Every democratic convention dedares
it to be the duty of the state to
keep the convicts within walls, and to also
provide some way by which their labor
may not be brought into competition
with the honest labor ot the country'. If
this can be done, it is the solemn duty
of the legislature to do so at once. The
honest labor of the country says it must
be done, common humanity demands it
and a proper regard for our civilization
and state pride imperatively demands
an early solution of this problem. I believe
it can be done, at least to a limited
extent, and at least so near as the
very nature of the question will adrftit
of, and in giving my reasons
I will first mention some of the indus
tries that may be developed in our state,
which are not now in existence, and if
these can be successfulfy worked by the
surplus convict labor of Texas, then they
will be withdrawn from that which forces
them in competition with the honest and
free labor of our state.
Nowhere in Texas is there an eftered
in the contest: Irwin Johns Clark,
Ira Willie Seley, Earl Cabell McCulloch,
Lillian Parrott,jMedi.ia White and Walter
Mordecai. Nobody knows which baby
will win. It was absolutely necessary to
decide this question by ballot, as no
committee could be induced to serve in
such a contest all the babies, are the
prettiest—or rather each mother thinks
that her darling is the daisy. This momentous
contest will be decided tonight,
and tonight will close the festival. A
splendid supper will be spread again, as
on last night, and the feast will be ready
as early as 6 p. m. The ladies hope to
see a large attendance and The Day
joins in the hope, for assuredly the cause
is a noble one and the entertainment enjoyable.
P. S.—The Day is requested to say
that no admission fee will be charged tonight.
Parties, when they enter, can purchase
supper or not, as they see fit.
Just Received
Celery Roots—Horse Radish
Fresh Celery—Cabbage—
Pickled pigs feet in barrels.
Pickled tripe in barrels.
Pickled tongues in barrels.
Gherkin pickles in barrels.
ChowChow in barrels.
Mixed pickles in barrels. ..
Marshall & Heard.
Chatauquans.
We are prepared to furnish all the books
required by the C. L. S. C., at members’
prices. Waco Book and Stationery Co.
II24IW.
Hot Relishes.
Tabasco Pepper Sauce.
Maunsel White Pepper Sauce.
Marshall & Heard.
“Sitting on de Golden Fence,” ScanrelV
bntP.l

FIRE
EXTINGUISH MS
Warranted to Pat Out Any
Fire In Its Incipiency.
Can be Usued by a Child.
For Sale By,
HORSFULL & CAMERON,
[OLD DRAFTS and DUST
—Kept Out V/ith—
PATENT MET A LIC
WEATHER STRIPS.
— For Sale By
HORSFUlI & CAMERON’S.
VOL. 4 NO. 7. WACO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER L 1886. i'JL\ r. oYENTS.
IBrg fiSooSs.
SANGER BROTHERS’
Ladies’ and Children’s Suit Department
We call your attention to some new lots of ladies’ and children’s ready made suits we
have just received. Every ladies’ garment that we have for sale is made up under
our own supervision in New York, they are all well made and good fitting as
none but fashionable dress makers are employed to make up these goods.
Ladies’ Ready Made Suits at $9.00.
Suit of ladies’ cloth skirt with full drapery and
pleated back basque, made neat and
plain at $9.00
Ladies’ Ready Made Suits at $11.00
Suits of Tricot in all colors with long pointed
drapery in front and full drapery in back,
basque plain and very neat $11.00.
Ladies’ Ready Made Suits at $12.50.
Black and colored cashmere suits, skirt made plain with six rows of stitching,
short front drapery and full back drapery, jacket to correspond
with skirt at $12.50.
Ladies’ Ready Made Suits at $13.00.
.S' (JITS OF ALL WOOL HAIR LINED STRIPED CIIEVIOTS
SKIRT LAID IN PLEATS AND FUTL BACKDRAPER1
AND BASQUE MADE WITH VEST FRONT
A VERJ PRETT7 SUIT AT #73.30
Tailor made suits of all wool sacking black and colors very stylish round front drapery
nd a bouffant back drapery jacket to match skirt at $16. The above are only a few of the
many elegant dresses we are showing in all kinds of woolen material fron $6 to $40 a suit,
our Parisian styles in blackand colored satin Duchesse and silk suits are very stylishly
made. We are also showing some very pretty styles in ladies morning wrappers.
:o:—:o:
Children’s and Misses’ Suits
Cashmere suits, sizes 4 to 12, $2.25 to $3.25. Misses suits full dress sizes 12 to 16
to 84.50. Children’s.flannel sailor suits sizes 4 to 12 years 5*2.25 to $525 three
styles, and a very fine line of children’s and misses suits in all kinds of fine woolen
material to all of which we invite inspection.
SangeR Brothers
tg.
W. M. RAGLAND.
(Established in 1871.)
OLDEST !& LAEOEST
JEWELRY HOUSE
In the City.
No. 360, Austin Avenue, Waco, Tex&a.
tbmcrtpti.’Bcoguisis.
CASTLES & MORRISON
THE OLD CORNER DRUG'S
Leading Prescription Brag Etcie m the City
Moxie, Orange Wine and Limeade. The
Most Popular Drinks in Waco.
A SECRET CIRCULAR.
! o:
THE KNIGHTS OF (LABOR LEVY A GENERAL
ASSESSMENT.
• o:
Contributions to the “Defense Fund” Called for—
A Petition in Favor of Cluveriu. The Damage
to Charleston by Earthquake Shocks.
Secret Circular to the Knights.
Associated Press.
Philadelphia, December i.— The
Pressthis morning publishes the following
important secret circular, issued by
the general officers of the Knights of
Labor with photolithographic rcproductions
of the signatures and seal of the
order:
OFFICIAL CIRCULAR.
Office of General 1
AssemblyY,, IK\.. UoPf L. i
Philadephia, Nov. 19.)
To all Subordinate Assemblies of the Order, Greeting:
Previous to the session of the general
assembly at Richmond, an appeal was
made for assistance for victimized
and locked out members in various
parts of the country'. The response to
that appeal was not such as it should
have been, and only about $14,000 was
received thereon. This, it is manifest to
every member, was entirely insufficient
to render the assistance needed and desired.
Many thousand members were
thrown upon our hands by lockouts of the
employers, who acted in concert with the
avowed purpose of driving their employes
out of the order, by crippling if
not destroying its power and useiulness.
The order of the Knights of Labor has
reached a most critical period in its history.
It stands as a power for good or
for evil, but your general officers, while
they make no special claim to superiority
in purity of motive, have sworn that
the order shall be made a
power for right and right only.
Two alternatives present themselves :
unconditional surrender or manly defence—
which shall it be ? The lockedout
members in their enforced idleness
turn from suffering wives and starving
children in a pathetic appeal to your
general executive board to aid them
in maintaining their manhood and
their fidelity to the order.
Deeply moved for these suffering members
and those dependent upon them,
your general executive board has unanimously
resolved ta.levy an assessment of
25 cents per member upon all the local
assemblies of the order, the same to be
paid under the following regulations:
All locaP assemblies that respond will
be credited in this assessment with the
amount donated; all local assemblies
who can are requested to
remit the full amount of assessment not
later than December 20. The assessment
in this case will be 25 cents for each
member, as shown by reports for the
quarter ending October 1, 1886. Local
assemblies preferring to pay the amount
in installments may pay ten cents for
each member not later than
Dec. 20, and ten cents not later than Jan.
20, and five cents not later than Feb. 20.
This assessment will be known as the
“special defence” assessment and must
be paid to General Secretary Chas. H.
Litchman, lock box, 885, Philadelphia,
not later than the dates named.
T. V. Powderly.
The Damage at Charleston.
Associated Press.
Washington, December 1.—Chas. T.
Mitchell, a former member of the South
Carolina legislature, and receiver of the
Charleston and Savannah road, and now
a chief of division in the sixth auditor’s
office, who has just returned from a trip
to Charleston told a reporter yesterday
that the real estate men there estimate
that it will take $7,000,000 to repair the
damage done by the earthquake. He
added that if the houses were not made
of English brick, as solid as a rock, not a
wall would be now standing. The $700,
000 contributed have already been
largely distributed. “It all goes,” said
Mr. Mitchell, “to the poor and helpless.
Men worth hundreds of thousands have
applied for a share of the benefit, but
have not yet received any, and Mayor
Courtnay told me he had a good mind
to publish their names and shame them.”
FleacT ’g for Cluveriua
Associated Press.
Richmond, Va., December 1.—The
counsel for Cluverius, condemned to be
hung December 10, for the murder of his
cousin, Fannie Lilian "Madison, waited
on Governor Lee last night and presented
a numerously signed petition asking a
commutation ot the death sentence. The
governor took the petition and promised
to give it his attention. Judge Drury A.
Hinton, the only one of the five judges
of the court of appeals that dissented
from the judgment of the lower court,
has not filed his dissenting opinion.
MRS. CLEVELAND'S FRIENDSThe
Cabinet Ladies With Whom She Is on Most
Intima 8 Term3.
New York World.
B/ S7 SODA \ABD MIL ERAL ^A 7MRS. J JM KILL ART1
As the winter season is about to open
there is considerable talk about Mrs.
Cleveland’s preferences among the cabinet
ladies. It is conceded that Mrs.
Manning will be the prime favorite at
the White House. Mrs. Cleveland had
never met the wife of the secretary of
the treasury until her wedding day.
While the other ladies of the cabinet uttered
formal wishes to the young bride
after the ceremony in the blue room,
Mrs. Manning kissed her , warmly, and
with tears in her eyes wished the new
mistress of the White House as much
1mnmnr>c;c:
said that Mrs. Cleveland had a warm
place in her heart for,Mrs. Manning, and
their friendship has grown stronger every
day since. Mrs. Manning is
at the White House more
frequently than any other society
lady in Washington. Mrs. Cleveland
consults her on points of capital etiquette,
and will no doubt be, in a measure, her
protege until she becomes thoroughly
familiar with the requirements of her
new station. It is hinted that the other
cabinet ladies are just a littlp bit jealous
of Mrs. Manning’s success at the White
House.
Mrs. Whitney, while not so intimate
with the mistress of the White House,
is on excellent terms with her, as she is
with everybody else. She is a great admirer
of Mrs. Cleveland’s beauty, and
often speaks of her as the handsomest
woman in Washington. This will appear
.peculiarly disinterested when it is
remembered that Mrs. Whitney herself
is a pretty woman.
Mrs. Vilas seldom calls at the White
House, and there does not seem to be
much love lost between her and Mrs.
Cleveland. The two ladies are so opposite
in character that they never could
become friends. While Mrs. Cleveland
is bright, happy and impulsive, Mrs.
Vilas is a cold, polished woman of the
world—one who seems to have studied
out life philosophically and concluded
that there is an immense quan ity of
sham in it. Mrs. Vilas’ 15yearo'd
daughter Mollie is a prime favorate at
the White House. However, she is a
lovely, goldenhaired little creature —
one of those caressing, kittenish children
whom it is impossible to resist. Miss
Mollie is sometimes seen with Mrs.
Cleveland in their drives, and it is hard
to decide which is the prettier.
Pretty Miss lennie Lamar, only
daughter of the secretary of the interior,
has also found favor with the warmhearted
mistress of the White House.
Miss Lamar is one of those dark, passionate
looking girls such as are seen in
Spanish pictures. She has been here
only a short time, is motherless and almost
unacquainted, and Mrs. Cleveland
has been very kind to her. One remarkable
thing is there are no bickerings
among the wives and daughters of the
cabinet officers, and no quarrels about
precedence. It was not so when Miss
Cleveland presided at the White House.
Then the ladies felt that they had a leader
whose title was questionable, and each
felt that she herself had a better claim to
the name of “first lady in the land.”
Now, however, they have an acknowledge
i leader young, beautiful, and they
are united in their determination to
make this administration the most suecessful,
socially, that Washington has
seen in many years.
A Cranky Law Maker.
Atlanta, November 24.—McGee, the
member of the legislature from Murray,
is in a fair way to achieve fame. He is
opposed to monopolies and big cities.
He was elected as the special representative
of the farmers, with a little admixture
of the Knights of Labor. After his
election he called a meeting of his constituents.
The meeting came to the conelusion
that there were too many rich
folks, and that their increase should be
cut off.
The result is that a bill has been introduced
in the legislature to limit the
profits on “store goods.” It is provided
that merchants shall not charge a profit
of over fifteen percent, on the necessaries
of life, such as corn, flour, bacon and coffee.
Penalties are provided for speculating
outside of these figures.
The friends of the bill aver that it will
bring about a revival of prosperity among
the poor; that the state has as much
right to regulate mercantile profits as it
has railroad rates, and the laws should
be made for the benefit of the poor entirely.
The serious part of the matter is
that, notwithstanding the absurdity of
the bill, it stands a chance of passing the
house.
A Living Landmark of History.
Col. G. T. Peers is the only white man
now living at Appomattox Court House
who was there at the time of the sur
render of Gen. Lee. He is the friend,
counselor and leader of the little community,
and his kindly blue eyes and
flowing white beard gave him a patriarchal
appearance. His office in the
basement of the court house is crowded
with musty old papers, many bearing
date early in the last century and concerning
:he estates and fortunes of many
proud F. F. V’s. Col. Peers is probably
better acquainted with the Deal events
transpiring at the time ot Lee’s surrendei
than any man in the south.
ADJUDGED INSANE.
Dr. Leach Will go to the Asylum Instead of the
Penitentiary.
A Bride’s First Sorrow.
St. Paul Globe.
“What is the matter with my little
wife?” Her dainty head falls on his
shoulder, and between the sobs, that
shake her slight frame, she says: “Wi
Will, I fefeel so baad. I wanted to
make some bibiscuit this noon, aaand
got the wawa water and salt and yeye
yeast, but there’s something mimimissing,
and I can’t think whawhawhat
it is.” Mr. Youngman smiled quietly
and, clasping his young wife to his watchs
pocket, he placed his lips to her ear and
whispered: “Flour.”
Miss Cleveland's New Poem.
Utica Heraid.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveiaudh as written
a narrative poem of 400 lines, which
will soon be published. It is called
“The Dilemma of the Nineteenth Century,”
and treats of the woman question
from the satirical point of view. The
metre is something similar to that of
“Don Juan,” and the poem is said by
In July, 1885, Dr. R. W. Leach, a practicing
physician in DeLeon, Comanche
county, shot and killed Constable Jo. A.
Martin. Dr. Leach was drinking at the
time, and Martin was taking him home.
Leach was indicted by the grand jury of
Comanche country on a charge of murder.
He was tried at the spring term,
1886, of the district court of Comanche
county, and the jury assessed the punishment
at fourteen years in the penitentiary.
An appeal was taken, and pending
this appeal thedefendent was brought to
Waco and confined in jail. About ten
days ago the case was affirmed. Mrs.
McL. Leach, wife of defendant, went to
Austin, and through the influence of
friends and a petition numerously signed,
Governor Ireland issued a stay in the
proceedings. Meanwhile Dr. Leach was
kept in the jail, and his faithful wife went
to work to prove that he was insane. An
affidavit charging Dr. Leach with insanity
was filed before County Judge Evans
by Sheriff W. T. Harris, and the case was
tried this morning. Hon. George Clark
represented the defendant, and County
Attorney J. W. Taylor appeared for the
state. Witnesses were examined and
deposed as follows:
Mrs Me. L. Leach, wife of defendant,
said she married Dr. Leach, September
23, 1877, in Washington City. The first
appearance of in'anity was a few years
after they were married. Dr. Leach’s
father, while they were living in West
Virginia, advised her to have him confined
in the asylum. She did not want
him confined and they removed to Texas,
and lived in Erath county; it was here
where he began his first ravings, and became
violent at times. He has a first
and a second cousin who are insane.
The doctor is 34 or 35 years old, he has
suffered from one severe attack of insanity
since his conviction.
Dr. H. W. Brown had seen Dr. Leach
in the jail, and first met him in February
of this year; he is very weak in health:
thought his mind was entirely unbalanced;
had seen him two or three times,
and he was not the same either time;
thought he should have been under confinement
and treatment for the last several
years; thought he is not a responsible
being.
Dr. R. W. Park thought the defendant
was undoubtedly of unsound mind, and
believed that it was necessary tfiat defendant
be placed under restraint.
Dr. D. R. Wallace, superintendent of
the lunatic asylum at Terrell, said he
knew defendant; said he was of unsound
mind, and should be placed under
restraint. “From the history of the case
I would not have discharged him from
treatment at any time within the past
seven years; the cause of his insanity is
rather an evolution in his constitution,
arising from an hereditary taint.”
The jury then retired and in a few
minutes returned a verdict to the effect
defendant was of unsound mind, and
recommended that he be placed under
restraint. Governor Ireland will now be
asked to stay the proceedings of the
courts, and Dr. Leach will be sent to the
asylum at Terrell. If Dr. Leach is restored
to his right mind, and is not
pardoned by a governor at any time between
now and the time the fourteen
years shall have expired, he will have to
serve the balance of the time in the penitentiary.
But it is not probable that he
will have to serve one day in state prison,
as there will be strong influences
brought to bear 0.1 either Governor Ireland,
Governor Ross or some other governor
to have him pardoned. The man
is a wreck'—the very picture of a crazy
man, and he is suffering from consumption,
which will sooner or later carry him
off. Since his confinement it the Waco
jail. Dr. Leach has given the officers littie
or no trouble. He is adicted to the
use of morphine, and has used it to
such an extent that when from under
the influence of the drug he is almost
wild. Leach is the father of three chil
dren. one boy and two li’tle girls. Duringtne
hearing of the
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stone which abound in central and
western Texas: this industry alone, with
proper management, would give employment
to several thousand convicts. I
have recently visited the granite quarries
of Burnet county now being worked by
the capitol syndicate with convict labor,
mainly, the stone being quarried only for
the new capitol building at Austin, and
to say it is being successfully done is
but to repeat what every one says who
has seen it. Now if convict labor can
be utilized by private parties then why
not by the stale? I liese quarries are on
the Colorado river, at the celebrated
mhrble falls, which is pronounced by enineers
to be equal to the best water
ower in the United States, with sufficient
power to drive all the machinery
that could possibly be utilized. Now in
selecting a location for the new penitentiary,
why not secure this site? One
thousand acres of land could be bought,
embracing the falls, and the granite quart
ies. On this one thousand acres would
be three hundred and fifty acres of solid
granite rock, being an immense mountain
clear of soil: also an inexhaustible
supply of the finest variegated marble,
and hundreds of acres of hard limestone.
The state could erect its buildings with
its own labor. There are now four hundied
convicts who have become skilled
granite cutters while working for the
capitol syndicate. These could be utilized
and others could be trained and the work
of quarrying, dressing and shipping this
granite, marble and limestone to all
parts of the state could be at once commenced.
This would at once give employment
to the convict lab ir, and the
cost of production being so small would
enable them to furnish the material so
cheap that it would becofne of general
use for all fine or ornamental work
throughout the state. An abundance of
the best iron ore is found in the immediate
vicinity of the falls. This industry
could also be successfully developed and
worked by convict labor. I firmly believe
that in twelve months from this
date, if an effort was made, every convict
now working on farms or railroads
could be worked in those quarries and
foandries, and at a profit to the state,and
if true one of the hardest problems to
come before the next legislature will have
been solved. Respectfully,
James I. Moore.
Waco, November 30, 1886.
LAST NIGHT AND TO NIGHT.
The Enjoyable Entertainment Given by the
Ladies oi St. Paul's Guild.
morning the little son sat on his father’s
knee, and Leach seemed as if he did not
know what was going on; all of his time
was taken up in talking to and caressing
his boy.
Right royally did the ladies of St. Paul’s
guild welcome and entertain their friends
and visitors last night. They used the
spacious building belonging to Dr. Cock
(opposite The Day office) which Dr. C.
tendered without charge, and there they
spread a supper that was superb. Hundreds
of visitors came and went during
the evening and all were served with the
hospitality and grace that ever characterizes
the ladies ot the guild. It was a
poem in epicurean art, that supper, and
not to be forgotten. (The Day, by the
way, does not forget the lunch sent to
this office, for which thanks are here tendered).
But the supper was not the only
source of pleasure and interest. Several
attractive devices, or rather means of
raising revenue, were put on foot, which
may be enumerated biiefly. First, there
is balloting and a prize for the most popular
married lady. The balloting will
open tonight and the prize is a handsome
quilt. Then the most beautiful young
lady, receiving the greatest number of
votes, will receive a beautiful handpainted
placque. As there are several
candidates lor this distinction it is
hardly proper to venture an opinion who
will be the victor, although it is hinted
that Miss Annie Cameron’s friends are
determined she shall have the placque.
The handsomest and the homeliest married
men will each get prizes. They will
be balloted for, as in the case of the
ladies. Perhaps the most interesting
contest, however, is for the prettiest baby
—the victor to receive a handsome
___ Afghan. The balloting commenced last
testimony this' "’Sht, with the following little ones en
THE CONVICT PROBLEM.
Proposed Utilization oi Labor in the Granite
Fields Near Barnet
To the Editor of The Day.
. A great deal is being said and written
now about the branch penitentiary, which
seems must be built to accommodate the
increasing number of convicts, and to
provide a place of safe confinement for
them and at the same time not make
them a burden upon the tax payers of the
state. Every democratic convention dedares
it to be the duty of the state to
keep the convicts within walls, and to also
provide some way by which their labor
may not be brought into competition
with the honest labor ot the country'. If
this can be done, it is the solemn duty
of the legislature to do so at once. The
honest labor of the country says it must
be done, common humanity demands it
and a proper regard for our civilization
and state pride imperatively demands
an early solution of this problem. I believe
it can be done, at least to a limited
extent, and at least so near as the
very nature of the question will adrftit
of, and in giving my reasons
I will first mention some of the indus
tries that may be developed in our state,
which are not now in existence, and if
these can be successfulfy worked by the
surplus convict labor of Texas, then they
will be withdrawn from that which forces
them in competition with the honest and
free labor of our state.
Nowhere in Texas is there an eftered
in the contest: Irwin Johns Clark,
Ira Willie Seley, Earl Cabell McCulloch,
Lillian Parrott,jMedi.ia White and Walter
Mordecai. Nobody knows which baby
will win. It was absolutely necessary to
decide this question by ballot, as no
committee could be induced to serve in
such a contest all the babies, are the
prettiest—or rather each mother thinks
that her darling is the daisy. This momentous
contest will be decided tonight,
and tonight will close the festival. A
splendid supper will be spread again, as
on last night, and the feast will be ready
as early as 6 p. m. The ladies hope to
see a large attendance and The Day
joins in the hope, for assuredly the cause
is a noble one and the entertainment enjoyable.
P. S.—The Day is requested to say
that no admission fee will be charged tonight.
Parties, when they enter, can purchase
supper or not, as they see fit.
Just Received
Celery Roots—Horse Radish
Fresh Celery—Cabbage—
Pickled pigs feet in barrels.
Pickled tripe in barrels.
Pickled tongues in barrels.
Gherkin pickles in barrels.
ChowChow in barrels.
Mixed pickles in barrels. ..
Marshall & Heard.
Chatauquans.
We are prepared to furnish all the books
required by the C. L. S. C., at members’
prices. Waco Book and Stationery Co.
II24IW.
Hot Relishes.
Tabasco Pepper Sauce.
Maunsel White Pepper Sauce.
Marshall & Heard.
“Sitting on de Golden Fence,” ScanrelV
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